Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13

of the management TO have thirty thousand
acres of land under the pillow, so That there
will be fifteen thousand acres tIf grain each
year. These $1,000 acres will produce
l50 600 sacks, or GOO carloads, or t
80 trainsloads of wheat. These clay-loam
soils produce the best an'i plumpest wheat
for milling purposes, and 1t is eagerly sought
by millers, and conn nands the highest |
market prices.
Although this part of TehaIna has been I
used as grain & ground up to the past |
four or five years, experiments enough have |
been made to she w that the soil and cli- |
mate is well ad Apted to the production OF
all kinds of fruit and vines The cattle
and sheep zen had gardens and orchards
around their. home places, and some of
these orch ards and vineyards go back as
far as tn e SOS. On the Gallatin ranch
there are half dozen orchards and vine
yards In null bearing, and the trees and
vines sh ow a vigorous growth, and are now
loaded with fruit and grapes.
COAL AND MINERALS FOUND, AND RAIL
ROAD WANTED.
In this section of the county there are
large deposits of coal near the foothills.
an it is thought that it will prove to be
OF, such quality as to be available for the
forge and furnace. Last year there were
large deposits of oxide of chromium dis
I covered, and the ore carries so high per-
centage of this metal as to make it very
valuable. The quantity is inexhaustible.
and will supply the mechanical demands
,, of the world Although the distance to
the railroad is not now very great, the one
want Of all this section is another railway
line. A branch road through this county
| to these coal and chromium mines, and to
the timber belt of the Coast Range would
i not only do good local business, but de-
yelop large and rich area, and bring an
! added business TO the main line. This
branch line will be necessity of the near
| future.
THE THoMEs GRANT.
On the Sacramento river, around the
town of Tehama, is what is known as the
Thomes Grant. 1t was one of the four
great grants located in Tehama county in
1874, when the locators had the whole of
Northern California to choose from. This
is equivalent to saying that it is one of the
choicest spots of the coast. This great
grant Is now occupied by several proprie-
tors, but the largest portion-over $4,000
acres-ls owned by John Finnell and his
sons. The rest of the grant is owned by
Messrs. Tyler, Mooney & Schultz. All
this great body Of land is still mainly de-
voted to wheat-growing. Enough tree and
vine-planting has been done in the past
years to show that all the soil of the tract
is admirably adapted to orchards and vine
yards. All the present occupants were
| poor home-seekers when they came to the
coast, and their present fortunes are evil
dences of what the soil of this State will
do when well-directed energy and industry
are brought to its tillage On the east
side OF the Sacramento river, extending
from the great canyon just above the city
of Red Bluff down to the southern bound
| airy OF Tehama county and clear through
Butte county, is probably the richest sec
ton OF land, of the same area, on the
American continent. The most of the
intervale land of the Sacramento is on that
side of the river.
| THE RANCH OF j. s. CONE
Is situated ON the east side of the Sacra-
mento river, from point east of Red Bluff
south to Deer creek, the northern bound
ary OF the Vina tract, distance of eigh-
teen miles, and it extends east and west
ten or twelve miles. For everything that
goes to make up rich productive land this
tract cannot be excelled. Mr.. Cone has
95,604 acres of land, of which about $4,000
acres are here in one body; $1,000 acres
being intervale or bottom land the soil of
which is warm, deep loan. This soil is
the deposits from the wash of the Sacra-
mento river, and Antelope, Mill and Deer
creeks, through untold time, and it is from
fifteen to twenty feet in depth. This bot
tom land is the same in character as the
| best land of the Nina tract, of the Rancho
Chico, and of the Reavis tract near Chico.
and in addition it has an annual rainfall of
fully thirty inches, being somewhat greater
! than 1t is even twenty miles further south
III the valley, and probably five inches
more than it is fifty miles south. This
greater amount of precipitation not only
insures against a crop failure. but it in
sures greater crop each year. The other
advantage is that it is covered with per-
feet network of streams of water which
have their rise in the everlasting SHOWS of
the Sierras, on the sides of Lassen Butte
and these
STREAMS RUN FULL-BANKED ALL SUMMER
These fifteen thousand acres were once
| covered with giant oaks that riyaled the
largest ones to be found in old England
Most OF them have been removed. leaving
Just enough to beautify the land and max
ing 1t one great oak park All of this
la,oo0 acres is under the pillow. About one
thousand acres are in vegetable gardens
and orchards and the balance is devoted to
grain and hay raising. This years wheat
product Will amount to $4,000 sacks. and
| there are several thousand sacks of barley.
! One thousand tons of hay have been cut
and stacked. The wheat alone will return
Mr.. Cone fully S150,000 There are sc. 900
ine Wooied sheep run on this ranch and on
| the mountain ranges, and their produce in
WOOL and lambs amounts to more than
100000 annually. Mr.. Cone has 200 head
oil workhorses and mules, and $50 head of
| cattle. On the ranch there are nearly
1000 head of Berkshire swine, enough to
iced all the men on the ranch and make
several carloads Of meat for sale.
PROGRESS AND FORTUNE.
On this great property there are several
sets of farm buildings, includin. houses.
barns corrals and granaries, all surrounded
by old orchards and gardens. Mr.. Cones
success is, perhaps, the most notable ex-
ample of what California SOL will do when
it Is thoroughly titled and the proceeds of
tillage are saved and reinvested in good
land. Mr.. Cone landed in California in
1850, almost empty-handed. He went to
work for wages in the Ophir district. in
Placer county, but was not content to
merely win wages, and he took contract
to make shakes" at good price per
thousand. In this way he made money
enough to buy team. With this team
he commenced freighting to the mount
aims from Sacramento, hauling his own
freight, buying at Sacramento, and selling
in the mining camps. In this way, in
three years, he accumulated several thou
sand dollars, with which, in 1854. he
brought from Missouri several hundred
head of fine cattle, which proved profit
able enterprise. For several years he was
engaged in grazing, which was then, as
now, good business. His great fortune has.
however, been made from the rich bottom
lands of the Sacramento valley Nineteen
years ago he bought l6, 900 acres of the Dive.
or " Rio de Los Berendos Rancho grant,
The price paid for this first purchase.